The Scientific Method/Properties of Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
The crust
100
What is the name of the Supercontinent?
Pangaea
100
What is the point on the Earth's surface directly above where the earthquake occurred?
Focus
100
What are the 3 types of volcanoes
Shield, Cinder Cone, Composite/Stratovolcano
100
What are Pa's most common resources mined?
coal and natural gas
200
What are the coordinates of the North Pole?
0 degrees E, 90 degrees N
200
What ocean is currently growing due to seafloor spreading?
Pacific
200
Which scale demonstrates the damage caused by an earthquake?
Modified Mercalli
200
What type of lava is thin and light in color?
Mafic lava
200
If a rock has visible bands or stripes is it foliated or non-foliated
Foliated
300
What is the first step in the scientific method?
State the problem
300
What form at the center of seafloor spreading?
Mid-ocean ridges
300
Which scale is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?
Richter
300
What is jagged mafic lava that cools quickly called?
aa
300
What is softest mineral on the Mohs Scale
Talc
400
What is the axis?
An imaginary line on which the Earth rotates
400
What plate boundary causes earthquakes?
Transform boundaries
400
What kind of region will Earthquakes cause the least amount of damage?
Bedrock
400
What is the region called where most of the world's volcanoes called?
The Ring of Fire
400
Name the ways you can test hardness in a mineral.
Fingernail, penny, steel nail
500
What is longitude?
Imaginary lines that run vertically across the Earth
500
Who invented the theory of the Continental Drift?
Alfred Wegener
500
What theory is the bending of rocks and snapping into place when stress is released?
Elastic Rebound Theory
500
If a volcano is short and steep what kind of volcano is it?
Cinder Cone
500
What are the 3 textures of sedimentary rocks?
Biological, clastic, chemical
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